Feature
Team planner: absences that feed into capacity
Holidays, sickness and each person's working week in one place — and sprint capacity does the arithmetic. From Business Standard.
The team planner holds who is away when — and how much each person works in a normal week. Both feed the capacity calculation instead of living in a second spreadsheet nobody updates.
Why these belong together
Sprint planning that assumes five full person-weeks while two people are on holiday for three days each will reliably over-commit. That is not an estimation problem, it is an arithmetic one — which is precisely why it should not happen in someone's head.
What it shows
Absences per person over time, the stored working week, and from those the capacity actually available in the planned period. On the board it appears as a load chip on the person — on sprints and on plain boards alike, because over-committed is over-committed with or without an iteration.
Being honest about it
This is not a holiday-request workflow with approvals, cover arrangements and remaining-leave balances. It records who is missing when so that planning holds. If you need HR administration, you need HR software.
Plan
From Business Standard, together with the calendar and board templates.
FAQ
Is this a leave-management system?
No. It records absences for planning — no request and approval process, no leave balances. For HR administration, a system built for that is the right place.
Which plan includes the team planner?
Business Standard and up. The calendar, which it is most often used alongside, is included there too.
Does sprint capacity really account for absences?
Yes. A person's available capacity in a sprint is their working week minus the absences recorded for that period.